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who was biddy mason?
enslaved women who successfully sued for her freedom and becomae the 1st black homesteader in los angeles
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what was the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo
ended the us-mexican war
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what was the gadsden purchase
29,670 sq. miles of land purchased by the u.s. from mexico in 1853
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what was the impact of tejanos on texas
cultural influence, dominating the cuisine, style of music, and architecture
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what was the yankee strip
ran through northern ohio, indiana, and illinois, and encompassed the entire states of michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, . migrants from ne settled here
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why did the rural south white population state ethnically homogeneous
slavery detered immigration to the south
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who was henry david thoreau
writer who supported the abolition of slavery, universal dignity of all people in general. early enviromentlist
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who was walt witman
wrote leaves of grass captured the restlesnss of a people on the move. maybe early enviromentalist
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who was maria stuart
black boston preacher who denounced racial and gender prejudice for condeming all black women to a life of labor
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what was the seneca falls conference
1st conference devoted to the staturs of women. protested the efforts of white men to exclude women from formal participation
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what was the declaration of sentiments
list of grievances against women
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what was the wilmot proviso
banned slavery from all land acquired as a result of the mexican war (not passed)
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what was the free soil party
party who promoted a forthright no-slavery-in-the-territories policy and the wilmont proviso
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who was louis cass
the father of popular soveriegnty
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what caused the destruction of the whig party
the strain of kansas-nebraska act
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what was controversial about the kansas-nebrask act
it repealed the missouri compromise of 1820
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who were the know nothings
natavist american party, condemed growing political influences of immigrants. former whigs, limit political participation of all foriegn born men
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who was harriet beecher stowe
author who wrote uncle tom's cabinet. introduced northernors to the sufferings of an enslaved couple/ severance of family ties
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who was john brown
an abolitionist who with his sons hacked 5 men to death further raising tensions in kansas
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who was the first president of the confederacy
jefferson davis
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what was the crittenden compromise
a series of proposed constitutional amendments taht would have curtailed the gov't ability to restrict the interstate slave trade or sperad of slavery
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where was the first battle of the civil war
bull run
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what caused the upper south to join the confederacy
lincoln ordered a blockade of southern seaports they called it northern agression
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which border states remained in the union
missouri, kentucky, maryland, deleware
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what was the confederate plan for winning the war
fight a purely defensive war with small units of troops around the border. crush union armies that came into the confederacy
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what was the battle of bull run (manasis)
30 miles away from d.c. union/ confederate armies meet for the 1st time on battle field. union flees confederate wins
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how did the confederacy finance the war
floating bonds, raising taxes, 10% tax on farm produce, printed money @ extreme rate
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how did lincoln violate the constitution
suspeneded the writ of habeaus corups; arresting/ keeping people in jail without charging them
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who was george mcclellan
union general who turned back on the outskirts of richmond, showed the plan was a less forgiving approach toward the south; fired for incompetenct
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what happened at antietam
bloodiest day of the war, claimed 20,000 lives and resulted in a union victory
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what was the emancipation proclamation and wat was its impact
freed slaves in the confederacy, bolstered te north moral; allowed freedman to join union army
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what was the trent affair
union naval forces intercepted a british packet shipand siezed 2 confederate diplomas; lincoln lets them go
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who was beinto juarez
mexican president who aided the confederacy
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what was the 2nd confiscation act
provided that slaves of rebel masters were free, prompting union geneals to begin employing runaway slaves
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what happened at chancellorsville
jackson was mistakenly shot and killed by his own men and died
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who was belle boyd
kept track of unio troop movements; and served as a spy for the confederate armies
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who were the copperheads
northerners who had sympathy for the south
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who was david farragut
admiral who won @ mobile, alabama, helped lincoln inthe election of 1864
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what caused the new york city draft riots
enraged @ the weathly who bought substitutes, lincolns administration tacticts, black competitiors in the workplace
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who was john wilkes booth
man who killed lincoln
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what was lincoln's plan for recostruction
10 % plan
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what was the wade davis bill
congressional plan;
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who led the radical republicans
charles sumner, thadeus stevens
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what was the fate of many chinese women in california
prostitute 6 out of ten 60%
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who was john muir
naturalists who explored canyons / mountains of california
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what was known as sewards folly
alaska purchase
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describe the compromise of 1877
ended reconstruction with withdrawal of federal troops
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